THE COMMITTED MEN
The apocalypse-themed first novel by England’s enormously gifted M. John Harrison, who in more recent years has all-but disowned it
AKIRA
This is the 1988 cyberpunk-themed anime feature that, prior to game-changers like GHOST IN THE SHELL and PERFECT BLUE, irrevocably altered the format
THE FALLS
An astonishing tapestry that’s comedic, alarming and poetic by turns, THE FALLS was the first feature by Peter Greenaway, who went for broke in a panoramic 194 minute epic
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
THE LAST CHILDREN
This uber-bleak depiction of a post-nuclear Germany was published, unbelievably enough, as a children’s book
DINNER AT DEVIANT’S PALACE
A post-apocalyptic fantasy with a difference
NO BLADE OF GRASS
Societal breakdown, depicted by matinee idol turned sometime director Cornel Wilde
THE CORE
Definitely one for the too-stupid-to-be-ignored category
VIC, BLOOD, AND HARLAN
About the strange yet wondrous tales of Vic, a teenage punk, and his telepathic dog Blood, who subsist in a post-nuclear wasteland.
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” at 56
Examaning science fiction’s darkest story